Gear Locations

In May 2018, the Scottish Government announced new measures to improve requirements for static gear within 12 nm of Scottish baselines. It entails:

• Issuing guidance setting out best practice for marking static gear
• Introducing legislation to prevent marking gear with inappropriate items such as milk cartons and netted footballs
• Requiring licensed fishermen to mark buoys etc. with the PLN
• Requiring unlicensed fishermen to mark gear with a unique reference number provided by Marine Scotland

Please note, in order to update our website with new creel co-ordinates the following template (which can be found here) must be completed and sent to lianne@swfpa.com.